Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice

by Christopher Johns (Editor)

Overview

"...an important text for practitioners...this text is a valuable tool that develops self-inquiry skills."
Journal of Advanced Nursing

Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice introduces the practitioner to the concept of guided reflection, in which the practitioner is assisted by a mentor (or 'guide') in a process of self-enquiry, development, and learning through reflection in order to effectively realise one’s vision of practice and self as a lived reality.

Guided reflection is grounded in individual practice, and can provide deeply meaningful insights into self-development and professional care. The process results in a reflexive narrative, which highlights key issues for enhancing healthcare practice and professional care. Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice uses a collection of such narratives from everyday clinical practice to demonstrate the theory and practicalities of guided reflection and narrative construction. In this second edition, Chris Johns has explored many of the existing narratives in more depth.  Many new contributions have been added including several more innovative reflections, such as performance and art.These narratives portray the values inherent in caring, highlight key issues in clinical practice, reveal the factors that constrain the quest to realise practice, and examine the ways practitioners work towards overcoming these constraints.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444347975
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/13/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Chris Johns is Reader in Advanced Nursing Practice at the University of Bedfordshire and is ‘one of the leading proponents of reflective theory’ (Nursing Times, 2000). He has authored and edited several books in reflective practice for Wiley-Blackwell including Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice, and Engaging Reflection in Practice.

Table of Contents

1. The basic scheme
2. Constructing the narrative
3. Guidance
4. Weaving the narrative
5. A feminist slant
6. Awakenings
7. Finding a new way in health visiting
8. Falling through the net&a spider’s web
9. Climbing walls
10. Reflections on performance
11. More than eggs for breakfast- becoming a transformational leader
12. Shifting attitudes towards self-harm patients in A&E
13. Jane’s rap
14. Audiencing
15. Coherence and ethics
16. An accidental tourist
17. Reflections

Editorial Reviews

This approach enables individual practitioners to develop deeper insight and improve the quality of their patient care. Readers also will benefit personally, physically, and mentally from this enhanced self reflection and growth.”  (Doody’s, 11 May 2012)

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Kathleen M. Woodruff, DNP, RN, ANP-BC(USC School of Social Work)
Description: This book introduces the concept of guided reflection, a process of self-inquiry, to help readers understand their individual practice and gain insights into areas of self-development. This update of the 2002 edition explores some of the existing narrative in more depth and adds many new innovative narratives.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide readers with a tool that will help them improve their professional practice in healthcare. Reflection is a widely recognized tool and through thoughtful development of this skill, practitioners should grow and develop in their roles.
Audience: The audience is healthcare providers, including students through novice and expert practitioners. The author is identified as one of the leading experts in reflective theory.
Features: The book directs readers through the process of self inquiry and demonstrates the development of guided reflections. Each chapter uses everyday experiences to demonstrate and assist readers with developing the necessary skills.
Assessment: This book provides an innovative approach to guided reflection as an effective tool. Self reflection is essential for growth as a professional. This approach enables individual practitioners to develop deeper insight and improve the quality of their patient care. Readers also will benefit personally, physically, and mentally from this enhanced self reflection and growth.

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